Books

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
September 3–September 4by Gabrielle Zevin

2666
December 10–September 3by Roberto Bolaño

Flash Boys
September 23–September 24by Flash Boys

The Forever War
September 16–September 22by Joe Haldeman

The Last Shadow
July 9by Orson Scott Card

The Twenty-Seventh City
April 25–July 2by Jonathan Franzen

The Rose Code
January 13–January 30by Kate Quinn

Let the Great World Spin
November 23–December 8by Column McCann

The Ministry for the Future
October 13–November 6by Kim Stanley Robinson

Foundation
October 3–October 9by Isaac Asimov

Jitterbug Perfume
July 19–September 26by Tom Robbins

Purity
June 12–July 14by Jonathan Franzen

New Spring
by Robert Jordan

The Way of Kings
by Brandon Sanderson

Freedom
March 31–April 3by Jonathan Franzen

There’s one scene in this one that hints of a payoff to an event that happened five books ago, and describes future events that are depicted on the cover of Book 13. The second half of this series moves pretty slowly. This one was pretty good though.

I’m writing this a month after I finished it, and I can’t remember anything that happened.

A city where channelling is impossible is a cool wrinkle, and it builds up to a fantastic ending

A little more active in the middle parts than Lord of Chaos, but a disappointing ending

The Goldfinch
September 13–20by Donna Tartt

Like the other Wheel of Time books, a long slow beginning, but this one didn’t pick up until the very end. Last scene was awesome but then I was wondering what happened in most the previous 950+ pages.

Last 200 pages of this one were great.

Better than the first Wheel of Time book. Really intense last quarter of the book.

The Three-Body Problem
January/Februaryby Liu Cixin

Into Thin Air
Januaryby Jon Krakauer

The Martians
Late 2019by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Corrections
Late 2019by Jonathan Franzen

The Great Bridge
Winterby David McCullough

Redshirts
September 2019by John Scalzi

The War of the End of the World
Summerby Mario Vargas Llosa

New York 2140
Early 2019by Kim Stanley Robinson